Remington small bores shorter barrels??

[Craig Larter]

There are a bunch of really nice Remington era small bores in the upcoming Morphy auction, most are 26 or 28 inch guns. I have read, with the popularity of skeet, short barreled guns were all the rage in the 30's. Do Remington era guns follow the trend to shorter barrels versus earlier guns???

[Bill Murphy]

Yup, Craig, sad but true. Buy 'em and like 'em.

[charlie cleveland]

im my youth all i wanted was a 12 ga with 26 inch barrels...open chokes for quail....now i lean to long barrels and 10 - to 8 ga guns....but really like the small bores but most of the time out of my reach....charlie....

[Researcher]

Looking through the guns, can Lot # 2236, serial number 241110, a DHE-Grade .410-bore really have shipped January 1937 like the letter says? It has the plain top rib with no panel.

[Dean Romig]

241110 looks more like about a 1938 or 39 serial number.

If no .410 sets were remaining from Meriden and Remington had to make this set up it stands to reason there would be no rib legend.





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[GH-16]

From my observations many of the Remington era guns are wearing 26" barrels & I've always thought they did that because that's what the market wanted in that era. One of the things to possible support this is the Parker reproductions. The repro's were based & copied off of Remington era Parkers & by a significant margin most them are 26" barreled guns. There are some 28" repro's and only one that I know of with factory 30" tubes.

Just curious: When did 28" barrels become considered short barreled guns? Personally I've never placed 28" in the short barreled category.

[Reggie B]

When 32" barrels became all the rage I think 28" barrels got re-classified into the short barrel category. Many attribute sporting clays as the factor that created the demand for 30 and 32" guns.

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Reggie Bishop

When 32" barrels became all the rage...

When did that happen? From my experience it happened within the last 20 or so years with the Sporting Clays fraternity.




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[Reggie B]

Yeah what Dean said!

[Woodcock survey]

All shooters, both shotgun and rifle-pistol are always looking for the magic bullet. Caliber barrel length, load ,stock configuration , it goes on and on. The 25 inch length of Churchill is one, palm swell, thumb hole too many to list. We only have to look to one source for improvement----- ourselves.